【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 48

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He refused to have a pre-show and he made us queue up with the public, which he loved, you know, get the critics down on the level of the people that actually pay the money. And when we came out, Hitchcock was waiting in the lobby, with his hands in front of his paunch, looking with delight at the aghast faces of the critics. And I said to him, you know, "I honestly don't think this is going to get good notices." He said, "You don't think it'll play very well, Mr Walker?" He said, "Perhaps not with your tripe, but I think, looking at them, looking at the public, it'll play very well indeed." And it did. It cost a $100,000 and it made 11 million. It was his first big jackpot.
After Psycho, Hitchcock moved to Universal Studios permanently. From the top floor of the so-called "black tower", Wasserman made sure his director wanted for nothing. The scale of Psycho's success, which took everyone by surprise, brought with it problems of its own.